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Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Dec 22, 2006, 22:34 UTC
Message-ID
<Pine.LNX.4.64.0612221432430.3671@woody.osdl.org>
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<877iwjinda.wl%cworth@cworth.org>
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Carl Worth wrote:
> 
> I can understand the advantage of a shortcut like "git diff ..next",
> but I still don't understand why it's the comparison of HEAD and next
> that's really interesting here.
I can't understand why people complain about this.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE IT.

Nobvody forces you. Really. And dammit, if I want to compare HEAD and next, I compare HEAD and next. You have absolutely no business saying that you don't understand why I'd want to do it. It's MY LIFE.

> But, really, I still don't understand exactly _what_ "diff a..b" even
> means. Can you explain it to me?
It means exactly the same as "diff a b".
It's that simple.
So now go away. Stop complaining.
		Linus
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Message 6 of 12 in “Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git”
  1. Francis MoreauDec 21, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsDec 21, 2006
  3. Carl WorthDec 22, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsDec 22, 2006
  5. Carl WorthDec 22, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsDec 22, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 22, 2006
  8. Carl WorthDec 22, 2006
  9. Jakub NarebskiDec 22, 2006
  10. Francis MoreauDec 22, 2006
  11. Junio C HamanoDec 22, 2006
  12. Francis MoreauDec 22, 2006

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